Pandora''s Daughters - The Role and Status of Women in Greek and Roman Antiquity

Expanded and updated for this English-language translation, this book offers the first history of women in ancient Greece and Rome to be written from a legal perspective. Cantarella demonstrates how literary, anecdotal. and judicial sources can and cannot be used to discover that Greek and Roman men thought about women.

About the author

Eva Cantarella has taught at the universities of Camerino and Milan and currently holds the chair in the history of Roman law at the University of Parma.

Product details

• Authors: Eva Cantarella
• Assisted by: Maureen B. Fant (Translation)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.01.1987
• EAN: 9780801833854
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-3385-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Ancient Society and History; Ancient Society and History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories